The news seems to have come awake in Northeast Ohio overnight, possibly because of all the thunder. Disregarding the weather and the perfect pun that police handed a headline writer in Sandusky, there's a fresh wave of controversy to think about:

Lorain County has fired Dr. Paul Matus over a misconduct report; a gun-toting off-duty cop is upset about being turned away from a Cleveland school; church-school parents say the national Common Core Curriculum is an improper intrusion into local education; layoffs may result from state aid cuts in Cleveland Heights, already struggling with a renovation/school closing plan and lousy state scores; more rural homeowners are upset about requirements for sewage upgrades -- this time involving sewers in North Royalton; an audit finds a company's workers are due thousands of dollars; a Clyde-cancer-cluster resolution is postponed; and -- way down at the bottom -- there are fresh signs of progress in the Flats.

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